Lois Gottlieb

American architect and educator, Lois Gottlieb, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1947. She then apprenticed with architect Frank Lloyd Wright from 1948 to 1949 as part of the Taliesin Fellowship in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and Scottsdale, Arizona. Gottlieb completed her graduate work at Harvard University’s School of Design in 1950 and began her career in San Francisco with Warren Callister. The following year, she formed a partnership with Jane Duncombe—a fellow Taliesin apprentice—to establish Duncombe & Davidson, designing residences in Marin County. By 1956, Gottlieb was practicing on her own until her retirement, completing over 100 projects in the Bay Area, Riverside, California, and in Washington, Idaho, and Virginia. She taught at the College of the Holy Names in Oakland, California (1960–1964), at Alameda State College in Hayward, California (1962–1964), and at the University of California Extension in Riverside (1966–1972). Her book Environment and Design in Housing, based on her course lectures, was published by Macmillan Company in 1965.